But this week, we received word from Capitol Hill insiders that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and other Senate GOP leaders had blocked the plan to stick gun control from H.R. 1585 onto the relief bill.

“You don’t pop the cork until they’ve banged the gavel,” but we are cautiously optimistic that we are in a good place with respect to any effort to add gun control to the successive Coronavirus bills.

And if we win this battle, this will presumably be the last chance for gun control advocates before the November elections.

Still in Play

This leaves Democrats’ efforts to manipulate the election process to their advantage.

In particular, Pelosi and Schumer are pushing legislation to expand California’s voter-fraud system to the other 49 states.

In addition to ballot harvesting — where liberal activists bring carloads of completed ballots to the election station — California’s mail-in voting allows tens of thousands of ballots of questionable authenticity to arrive in the mail up to a week after the election.

In Orange County, California, four GOP legislators in solid-red districts lost their seats last year as a result of these election tricks.

Republican incumbents who were well-ahead on election night watched their leads vanish as “just enough” mail-in ballots to defeat them turned up at polling places during the ensuing week.

The bottom line? It looks like we’re winning, but we urge you to keep fighting to keep extrinsic anti-gun issues off the Coronavirus bills.

If Democrats want to block aid to sick people and sick businesses, they can take that intransigence with them on election day — and see how the American people feel about politicians who play games in an epidemic.